MSN wont let me add contacts

[Tai]

Everytime I try adding someone to MSN it says "it appears this contact doesn't use Messenger yet"

even though I know for a fact that they do, cos I can add them using the old MSN (Windows Messenger)

same thing happens on every email addy i try and it's pissing me off -_- tried searching google but found nothing on it.

any ideas?

 

[T0MMY]

Screenshot it.

 

[Tai]

dont see how this is going to help lol

 

[T0MMY]

Usually does that to me and it just adds them :S

 

[Far]

yup. i think it just means they dont use the new messenger live.

shld still add em fine.

 

[Tai]

well it doesn't, or i wouldnt be posting lol

 

[Tai]

this is seriously pissing me off now.

tried deleting all my caches and stuff from registry, nothing. tried reinstalling, nothing.

tried adding one of my other msn's (as i know it does use the same version of msn..), same problem "doesn't use messenger yet"

 

[Far]

is yours a hotmail/live account? or other like gmail?

 

[elohelMeight]

MSN... so either hotmail or live.

 

[Tai]

it's hotmail, and everythings worked fine up until a few days ago

 

[Kaori]

try another computer?

or try web messenger?
http://webmessenger.msn.com/

do you have many people on your list? there is a limit.

 

[Tai]

don't have another comp to try.

i've resorted to using old old Windows MSN for now (1 without any display pics etc) only problem is it doesnt let me send/receive files -_-

and no there's only like 15 contacts on it

 

[Kaori]

how about the web one?
see if you can add it there, then you can switch to windows live.

 

[Andreas]

or use yahoo , lol ....

 

[Tai]

how about the web one?
see if you can add it there, then you can switch to windows live.

Tried that, and I can add people, and they show up, they also show up on Windows Messenger (old), but same thing with Windows Live, it hasn't added them...

so that tells us that its something to do with either this version of MSN of my copy of it

 

[Kadama]

Your comp obviously cant handle the complexity of the new windows live, update your computer and "get it over with"?

 

[Snailly]

Try an older version of msn mate it might just be a glitch with the new one as they usually come out in beta and are poop

 

[Tai]

Your comp obviously cant handle the complexity of the new windows live, update your computer and "get it over with"?

yes clearly.

worked fine before now lol, dunno where to find an earlier version tho?

 

[Kadama]

Type in google "msn 7.5" or something along those lines, and im sure you'll find a version that works somewhere.

 

[DeathWish]

what about if you login to a different msn account and add people, does that work?

not sure if u sed u tried this already cnt b bothered to read back n check =/